Feeling Pharaonic on a Felucca

Cool Cats and Kamikaze Crocodiles in Egypt

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June 25th 2006
Matt: I guess tucked away in the back of everyone’s head is a list of places that you must visit before you die. Some lists maybe short, others simple; alas mine is neither. Although over the past nine months I have been able to cross a heap of places off my inflated and hugely expensive list, number one - Egypt - still seemed a bit unreachable (I guess the whole Africa thing makes it seem ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more